The empire expends so much of its wealth and energy on mass scale narrative control via propaganda not because it wants to, but because it needs to. This tells us that the best way to oppose the empire is to help debunk, discredit and break public trust in the narratives it works so hard to circulate.
Dysfunction and consciousness are indeed incompatible. Which state perceives enemies? Which state takes advantage of this hatred/ othering to turn people away from their cultivation of awareness, thus giving the ego more ‘time’?
Extreme othering is the ego’s home field advantage, easily using our own words to further confuse the already confused.
A clever ego would say that mindfulness practices to help calm trauma are ‘ false practices’ and those that teach it are enemies too. “Yes! We must stay away from that kind of mindfulness that only calms our trauma and that millions of people including children have been exposed to! It’s bad and fake and serves the oligarchy!”
“No, let me clarify...”
Too late… as the throngs push past you to hear the new prophet opportunist and their more clearly defined "enemy" based on the verbiage and parameters you set…the ego wins again.
Yes, this isn't easy. It is not accidental that the ego wins time and again. We reach out to those egoically dominated in a system that is egoically designed and sooner or later it rubs off on us…the extreme othering infects us too.
We can be heartbroken and disgusted and angry... then calmly go about dealing with unconsciousness without feeding the oligarch within. We define the players…including those which oppose transformation and global healing. But we point out they are symptoms that must be dealt with but that they are not the ultimate 'enemy'. And we point out that we cannot make an enemy of this ultimate enemy either because that resistance gives it sustaining power. The ego (including the conflict/negativity hungry pain body) tempts us to play its game, on its terms, always.
If we believe others need in-group vs out-group framing to foment enough anger to motivate change then we say so and avoid the manipulating, the hidden agenda. And we warn them of the dangers of doing so.
If we ourselves need to maintain our rage to keep us engaged then we are not aware that dysfunction rules us and the egoic condition will win with home field advantage once again.
There is a deep, radiating, beautiful, compassionate, caring love that can fuel our desire to transform our egoic global system... without making us ‘weak’ or ‘sedated’. If we still need rageful othering to sustain our motivation then we have lost touch with the power of loving presence...that which makes us care in the first place.
If i could add a few to Mr. Kristol's list... Canada and of course Venezuela... Venezuela would be easy.... and Canada is already a part of the empire!!
Right, and sometimes anger is an appropriate emotional response to spiritual awakening. Deep breathing is not an appropriate outlet for that anger, but neither is initiating violence.
Dysfunction and consciousness are indeed incompatible. Which state perceives enemies? Which state takes advantage of this hatred/ othering to turn people away from their cultivation of awareness, thus giving the ego more ‘time’?
Extreme othering is the ego’s home field advantage, easily using our own words to further confuse the already confused.
A clever ego would say that mindfulness practices to help calm trauma are ‘ false practices’ and those that teach it are enemies too. “Yes! We must stay away from that kind of mindfulness that only calms our trauma and that millions of people including children have been exposed to! It’s bad and fake and serves the oligarchy!”
“No, let me clarify...”
Too late… as the throngs push past you to hear the new prophet opportunist and their more clearly defined "enemy" based on the verbiage and parameters you set…the ego wins again.
Yes, this isn't easy. It is not accidental that the ego wins time and again. We reach out to those egoically dominated in a system that is egoically designed and sooner or later it rubs off on us…the extreme othering infects us too.
We can be heartbroken and disgusted and angry... then calmly go about dealing with unconsciousness without feeding the oligarch within. We define the players…including those which oppose transformation and global healing. But we point out they are symptoms that must be dealt with but that they are not the ultimate 'enemy'. And we point out that we cannot make an enemy of this ultimate enemy either because that resistance gives it sustaining power. The ego (including the conflict/negativity hungry pain body) tempts us to play its game, on its terms, always.
If we believe others need in-group vs out-group framing to foment enough anger to motivate change then we say so and avoid the manipulating, the hidden agenda. And we warn them of the dangers of doing so.
If we ourselves need to maintain our rage to keep us engaged then we are not aware that dysfunction rules us and the egoic condition will win with home field advantage once again.
There is a deep, radiating, beautiful, compassionate, caring love that can fuel our desire to transform our egoic global system... without making us ‘weak’ or ‘sedated’. If we still need rageful othering to sustain our motivation then we have lost touch with the power of loving presence...that which makes us care in the first place.
If i could add a few to Mr. Kristol's list... Canada and of course Venezuela... Venezuela would be easy.... and Canada is already a part of the empire!!
Right, and sometimes anger is an appropriate emotional response to spiritual awakening. Deep breathing is not an appropriate outlet for that anger, but neither is initiating violence.